Ata bin Saib says that I was once sitting with Abu Al-Bakhtari Tai while Hajjaj was delivering a sermon and saying that the example of Hazrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) with Allah is like that of Hazrat Isa bin Maryam. He says that then Hajjaj raised his head and sighed, then said {إنِّی مُتَوَفِّیک وَرَافِعُک إلَیَّ } … { وَجَاعِلُ الَّذِینَ اتَّبَعُوک فَوْقَ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا إلَی یَوْمِ الْقِیَامَۃِ } (And I will make those who follow you superior to those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection). Ata says that upon this Abu Al-Bakhtari said, "By the Lord of the Ka'bah! He has become a disbeliever."